The laying of telegraph cables were another extension of Britain’s influence besides just the suppression of the slave trade. The Illustrated London News, 11 July 1858. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

The Slave Trade Act of 1807 prohibited British ships from engaging in “the African slave trade, and all manner of dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer of Slaves, or of Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, practiced or carried on, in, at, to or from […]